chrisdfrey

With a lot of games you can put DXVK DLLs in its folder and get better performance: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk/releases

This writer (Digital Antiquarian) has a lot of interesting articles on early computers and computer games.

A great video on the history of Monkey Island speedruns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0mso2jW6Jc&t

There is a lot of FUD over what data TikTok collects, but even with data from just using the app they can do a lot of profiling.

Right, and the clientele of SVB was largely businesses. Only 7% of SVB deposits were FDIC insured, making them extra vulnerable to bank runs.

A lot of their game logic times based on "game cycles" instead of something proper like counting seconds. ScummVM runs a lot of old Sierra games; it applies some patches to game scripts to fix these issues and also throttles some stuff to make it run at a proper speed on modern hardware.

I played God of War (2018), the Last of Us games, and some other stuff on PS Now (Sony's cloud gaming platform). There were some issues but overall it worked pretty well. There are some games where cloud gaming can't give you low enough input latency, but I disagree that it is as many games as you think.

Are you basing this on Mark Stern's tweets? I read pages 31-32 of the opinion and it mentions Obergefell v Hodges but the decision isn't explicitly criticized.

Some articles on this:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-44951670

https://www.cnn.com/2013/04/12/business/second-hand-clothes-...

It's worth noting that this benchmark uses the 13" MBP; the 16" MBP has a more powerful CPU.

I'm pretty happy with the PlayStation Now experience for games that don't require fast response times; I would say it is "viable".

Most Android OEMs stop updating their phones after 2 years, no? That's not a problem exclusive to Motorola.

Apparently some later releases of SM64 turned on optimizations and have less lag than the earlier ones.

Even just eating less beef would make a big difference; it has a much higher carboon footprint than other forms of meat: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46459714

I'd argue AMD and Intel were pretty close in single-threaded performance until the Core 2 Duo (released in 2006).

Current captive dolphins and whales are grandfathered in, so Marine Land will still keep running for a while.

The web has had game walkthroughs since I started using it (about 1995). I remember the first walkthrough I looked up was for Space Quest 6.

Because Hyper-V is a type 1 hypervisor, VMs that use it can be faster; I've found using docker in virtualbox is a lot slower than using docker for Windows (which uses Hyper-V).

You can boot from USB or other partitions on some chromebooks; see GalliumOS: https://galliumos.org/

You have to enable developer mode to run crouton; you don't have to do that to run Linux apps.

Unfortunately I couldn't get crouton to work on a chromebook I bought recently; after switching into a chroot the screen would freeze. I think the issue might be that my chromebook has an AMD APU and an older kernel.

One advantaage to dual booting is you can get hardware acceleration, which you don't currently get with Linux apps in ChromeOS (though they are working on it).

Another is that most chromebooks have 4gb of ram which isn't much for running a VM on top of an OS.

Debian runs in a VM and different apps run in separate containers.

I'm not sure if it will be Hyper-V? Currently to use Hyper-V you have to have a non-home license for Windows, though maybe they will change that for this.

I hope you don't have to have a non-home license for Windows to run WSL 2, that would be really annoying.

Some of the existing WSL distros (like Ubuntu) already include package managers (like apt).

From https://venturebeat.com/2019/05/06/microsoft-windows-termina... :

"WSL 2 will also support running Linux Docker containers natively, so that VMs are no longer required."

Great news!

I imagine it's easier to sell higher resolution over higher framerates.